Cleaning device



May 22, 1923. 1,456,394

' E. F. MERRITT CLEANING DEVICE Filed' June 15, 1922 jwlwk Gum/neg Patented May 22, 1923.

EDWARD FRANK MERRITT, OF EAST BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS, ASSIGNOR OF ONE- HALF TO FRANK L. MERRITT, OF EAST BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS.

CLEANING DEVICE.

Application filed June 13, 1922.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, EDWARD F. MERRITT, a citizen of United States, residing at East Boston, in the county of Suffolk, State of Massachusetts, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Cleaning Devices; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

The object of the invention is to provide a simple and eificient household utensil adapted especially for thorough cleansing and maintaining in proper sanitary condition such articles as milk jars, lamp chimneys and the like, from which the residue or deposit cannot be efficiently removed by rinsing, but on the other hand requires me chanical contact or a scrubbing action; and, furthermore, to provide a device for the purpose indicated which can be readily used to quickly cleanse a receptacle of the type indicated with the minimum risk of break ing or otherwise injuring the latter; and with these objects in view the invention consists in a construction and combination of parts of which a modified embodiment is illustrated in the accompanying drawing, wherein;

Figure 1 is a side view of the device, and Figure 2 is a sectional view of the head and a portion of the staff or handle thereof.

The utensil embodies essentially a staff or handle 10, carrying a flexible moisture absorbent swab 11, connected with the staff or handle by means of asleeve 12 fitted upon the end of the handle and secured, for example, by a transverse rivet 13.

The swab preferably is of ball or globular form and is constructed of cloth or fabric rolled so that its edges or rolled portion are disposed within the contour of the head and secured within the socket 14 formed by Serial No. 567,940.

that port-ion of the sleeve or ferrule which projects beyond the end of the handle or staff, with the result that the head presents an unbroken surface and is transversely and longitudinally compressible or yieldable and in adapted by lateral and longitudinal movement of the staff or handle to be spread to conform to the shape of the surface of the bottle or other receptacle or lamp chimney which is being cleansed, and therefore to facilitate the removal from the surface of such receptacle of any residue vo-r deposit which may have adhered thereto.

The attachment of the, material forming the swab to the ferrule is preferably efiected by means of lacing 15, passing through the rolled edges of the swab and engaging a series of perforations 16 formed in the wall of the socket 14, or in that portion of the ferrule or sleeve which projects beyond the end of the handle or staff, and obviously when the swab becomes foul or offensive, or objectionably soiled, it may be readily removed from the socket for washing by cutting the lacing or stitching or a fresh head may be applied to restore the utensil to its original condition.

What is claimed is.

A cleaning deviceof the type indicated, having a handle, a ferrule fixed upon the extremity of the handle and projecting beyond the end thereof toform a socket, and a flexible and collapsible moisture absorbent swab secured to the ferrule within the socket by lacing extending through a portion of the swab element and perforations provided in the wall of the ferrule. I

In testimony whereof, I afiix my signature, in the presence of twowitnesses.

EDWARD FRANK MERRITT.

WVitnesses:

CHARLES BARROLL, FRANK A. LANGONE. 

